ConfigMgr How to Skip Disable Software inventory on a particular Folder

In this post, we’re going to discuss about the options available to skip/disable software Inventory on a particular folder or drive. Software inventory enabled on wrong folder/s or Drive/s can make your life miserable as a ConfigMgr administrator. We had a bad backlog issue because of wrong configuration of software inventory.

Loads of people in ConfigMgr community (real world) don’t use software inventory at all. They’ve better methods like Asset Intelligence etc.. to do the work. So before enabling software inventory, it’s always better to check whether it’s actually required or not.

Following are the details which will help you to configure software inventory properly.

Finding

– All the child primary sites have a large BADSinv folder.

– The folder size is more than 1.5 GB for all the child primary servers.

Possible Impacts

– The software inventory will not produce accurate results as there are lots of rejections on inventory files.

– SCCM backup is taking long time to finish.

– SCCM exec performance will be impacted because of extended run time of SCCM backup.

Possible Cause

– All the large inventory files are from SCCM secondary servers because of the software inventory task ran against packages in DP folders. SCCM is collecting all the data like exe, dll files in each application package.

– As SCCM don’t have initial software inventory data for the SCCM secondary servers as well as for some clients over and above these clients are doing resync and re sending FULL inventory.

– If the full software inventory report from the client is larger than the configured max size (5 MB by default) then those files will be moved to BadSINV folder.

Solution

To Skip the Software Inventory from a particular Folder / Drive :: Create a hidden file named Skpswi.dat and place it in the root of a client hard drive (SCCM secondary server DP drive) to exclude it from software inventory. You can also place this file in the root of any folder structure you want to exclude from software inventory. This procedure can be used to disable software inventory on a single workstation or server client, such as a large file server.

Anoop is Microsoft MVP and Veeam Vanguard ! He is a Solution Architect on enterprise client management with more than 17 years of experience (calculation done on the year 2018) in IT. He is Blogger, Speaker and Local User Group Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012,Current Branch, Intune. He writes about the technologies like SCCM, SCOM, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, RMS, Hyper-V etc...

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